Miss Julie

Miss Julie (1999)

  • 36% of critics liked it
    (22 reviews)

  • 53% of users liked it
    (966 ratings)

August Strindberg's once-controversial play is brought to the screen in this adaptation directed and co-written by Mike Figgis. Miss Julie is set on the estate of a wealthy Swedish family in 1894, where the servants live a life of uncomfortable poverty while the masters of the house enjoy their… More

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R, 1 hr. 43 min.
Directed By
Mike Figgis
Written By
Helen Cooper
Genres
Drama, Romance
In Theaters
Dec 10, 1999 Wide
On DVD
May 30, 2000
United Artists Films

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, Variety

    Intermittently powerful, though not really engaging, this new Figgis version suffers from poor conception of Strindberg's noted play and mediocre acting by Saffron Burrows in the lead; as the servant, Peter Mulan is quite good.

  • Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

    Other than that split screen scene, no convincing argument is made to translate the story from the stage to film.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lafe F


    Mike Figgis' stage play translated artistically to the screen. It's a nicely lit historical manor; most of the action is in the kitchen, where the grown daughter of the house Miss Julie (Saffron Burrows) has a steamy kitchen affair with John, the footman of the estate (Peter… More

  • Mark A


    A brutal look at the inequalities between men and women and between members of the upper and lower classes. The two main characters, Miss Julie (Saffron Burrows), the aristocratic daughter of the manor, and her father's footman, Jean (Peter Mullan), seem bent on daring the other… More

  • Leo L


    An interesting movie.

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